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EuroFlash no. 511
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In 1996, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen, Denmark, installed an NEC SX-4/16 supercomputer system, one of the best options available at that time. This system is now to be replaced with a NEC SX-6/48 supercomputer.
SuSE Linux, an international Open Source technology expert and solutions provider, will make available the SuSE Linux Pro-Office CD with Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 by mid-June. Additionally, the Pro-Office CD for SuSE Linux 8.0 features the latest edition of the ultimate desktop environment KDE 3.0.1, as well as important patches for the SuSE Linux 8.0 operating system. With the Pro-Office CD, SuSE Linux users can equip their home computers with state-of-the-art Linux desktop technology.
A new eTEN Call for proposals (2002/1) is to be launched at end June with a budget around 12 million euro. On July 4, 2002, the European Commission is organising an Information Day.
With all the excitment about the Earth Simulator, the "Computenik" that is bound to become number one in next week's release of the TOP500 list that will be reveiled in Heidelberg at ISC2002, we are being distracted from a number of other changes we can expect in the list. In Europe, for instance, the number one position has been taken for a number of lists by a German supercomputer. Before that, it were UK machines holding the first position in Europe. But do not forget that the large Compaq AlphaServer SC ES45 at CEA in France, already showed sustained performance of 1.3 Tflop/s on large real applications in December last year.
From 19th to 22nd June 2002, the 17 th International Supercomputer Conference will assemble in the International Convention Centre in Heidelberg. More than 400 participants from Europe, the USA and Japan are expected to take part in the biggest event for high performance computers Europe-wide. The event is composed of a tutorial, a conference on the subject and of an exhibition programme with representative suppliers of the market-segment.
NEC was ranked no.1 in the supercomputer performance based on the IDC Balanced Rating Test. This ranking was announced by the industry analysis firm, IDC, and reported in Primeur on May 27th.
Developers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have released NPACI Rocks 2.2.1, which extends the easy-to-use open-source cluster toolkit to Linux clusters powered by Intel Itanium processors.
Cray has received two orders totalling nearly $19 million from the U.S. Department of Defense and an additional governmental purchaser for Cray SV2 supercomputer systems and related services. The orders call for early air cooled systems to be delivered in 2002 so the purchasers can familiarise themselves with the operating system and begin to port their application codes to the SV2 system. Final deliveries are scheduled for 2003.
Platform Computing Inc. has released Platform LSF 5, the industry's premier solution for building Enterprise Grids at the 39th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in New Orleans. With its new high performance, Grid-enabled architecture, LSF 5 software sets a new standard in enterprise-wide workload management, providing enterprises with a strong, proven foundation for Enterprise Grid computing, further accelerating the adoption of commercial Grid computing.
The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) and Cray Inc. have signed an agreement that places a Cray SX-6 at ARSC. ARSC is pleased to be able to offer this leading technology to the wider High Performance Computing (HPC) community for testing and evaluation. This is the first installation of a Cray SX-6 system in the United States under the OEM agreement concluded last year between Cray Inc. and NEC. New users should be able to access the system by mid-July.
HP has advanced an alliance with Cadence Design Systems to broaden the reach of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) using Linux. As part of this, Cadence has furthered its investment in HP IA-32 and Intel Itanium-based servers and workstations running Linux for deployment in its development, testing and customer support programmes.
RackSaver, a provider of high-density rack-mounted computer servers and supercomputer clusters has launched its RS-1200V BladeRack line of ultra-dense servers.
Purdue University and Indiana University (IU) have succeeded in linking their IBM supercomputers in a computational grid via the universities' high-speed optical network, creating a facility capable of performing a trillion operations per second.
Xebeo Communications, specialised in metro area networking solutions, selected the Xilinx Virtex-II Platform FPGA, to deliver advanced packet processing capabilities in its carrier class packet switching platform, the Xebeo MetroBridge. Corporate internal LAN bandwidths and applications are growing at a much faster rate than access out of the building creating the "Metro Gap".
The South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), in collaboration with Cray programmers, has paved the way for higher-quality EST (Expressed Sequence Tag) clustering by making it practical to apply SANBI's widely used D2-cluster software to whole datasets instead of data samples.
Cray has been selected on a preliminary basis to join the Russell 3000 Index when the broad-market index is rebalanced June 30. Index membership will go into effect July 1 and will remain in place for one year.
Platform Computing has introduced major enhancements to its Enterprise Grid computing solutions that boost utilisation of enterprise IT resources to nearly 100 percent. With the release of new versions of its flagship LSF (Load Sharing Facility) and MultiCluster for inter-cluster sharing, Platform is delivering the industry's highest levels of scalability and performance to accelerate Enterprise Grid computing.
Platform Computing Inc. has made a significant equity investment in Powerllel Corporation, a provider of advanced parallel processing software for the financial services industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located in New York City, Powerllel develops advanced parallel computing software that distributes and processes computationally intensive applications across multiple systems to accelerate and improve the accuracy of results. This will enable financial services organisations to run mission-critical financial applications, such as securities and portfolio pricing, hedging, risk management, and end-of-day processing, unchanged in a Grid computing infrastructure. This is an expansion of a strategic partnership announced by the two companies in January 2002.
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